Breadth before specialisation

In unpredictable fields, breadth and late specialisation win more often than an early narrow path.

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  Breadth beats early specialisation in unpredictable fields

  In a field where the rules keep changing, a late specialist with range usually outlasts an early one without it.

  Explaining a non-standard background, choosing between a narrow and a broad early role, or answering why you changed direction.

  From Range · David Epstein